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Jetpack is a heavily used plugin that connects to a service that has over 5+ million active installs. If you are using Jetpack on your site then you should be aware of what information on your site it is sending out. Jetpack connects to WordPress.com in order to be able to provide a number of the modules for its features to function. You should be aware that the plugins, must-use plugins, the uploads directory size, and themes that are being Continue reading the post...

Gravatar is a hosted service from Automattic which allows you to create an avatar that is used on WordPress sites. If you need to disable user Gravatar on a site for performance reasons you can do so using a couple of free plugins. The first plugin is called Disable User Gravatar and once the plugin has been installed and activated you can disable Gravatar and use a locally uploaded image in the following settings; Settings > Discussion The Disable User Continue reading the post...

One of the easiest ways to help prevent brute force attacks is by being able to limit login attempts. This is where variations of commonly used username and passwords are used to try to gain access to your site. If you are not already using a security plugin on your site such as iThemes Security Pro, Wordfence, Sucuri, or Shield then one of the simplest plugins to limit login attempts is WPS Limit Login. After you have installed and the Continue reading the post...

WooCommerce recently added a setup dashboard widget which is loaded in the WooCommerce admin and would display in wp-admin. If you want to remove the extra dashboard widget bloat from displaying for clients then you can easily remove it using a code snippet. Even in the current version of the WooCommerce 5.7.1 the dashboard widget is added extra dashboard widgets in wp-admin. MainWP has a solid and easy-to-use extension for code snippets that you can save and execute code snippets Continue reading the post...

You may be aware of the number of activity logging plugins for WordPress but there is now a dedicated event monitoring service called Logtivity. Logtivity has a massive range of features such as event tracking, instant alerts, and a customizable reporting dashboard. Logtivity is very easy to integrate into your WordPress site. First, you will need to create an account, then add the site. After you have set up and added the site now you will need to copy the Continue reading the post...

There are a number of form plugins out there for WordPress but one of the most recent form plugins is one that works natively in the block editor and it is called Formality. After you have installed and activated the plugin it will add a new admin menu item called; Formality Under the menu item, it will show forms and results. To create your first new form you can click on the add new for add new form buttons on Continue reading the post...

The WP Rocket is a well-used full-page caching plugin that includes a number of optimization options. In version 3.9 of the WP Rocket plugin, it included a new remove unused CSS beta feature. The feature will use a background process that will run from a cron event and can take a while to run the feature depending on how much CSS needs to be removed on the site. The feature will use a custom database table to store the data Continue reading the post...

The AMP project from Google might be killed off in the future. Currently, the official AMP plugin does not have an uninstall option or a UI to remove posts and options that the plugin will store in the site’s database. The option to search for in phpMyAdmin would be using the following option name; amp-options Then once the AMP option has been found you select and then delete it. To delete the posts that the AMP plugin had created then Continue reading the post...

If you have been using SEO plugin on your site for a while then it is worth checking the alternative SEO plugin options that are now available. Most of the commonly used SEO plugins include migration options such as SEOPress, Rank Math SEO, and SEO Framework (TSF). In this post, we will cover two of the most heavily used plugins for SEO on WordPress sites. After you have installed and activated the SEOPress plugin on your site you will be Continue reading the post...

There will be times when you want to easily display a dashboard message for a client in wp-admin. An example of why you would want to have a specific dashboard message display would be to remind a client about a change or a new feature that was added to the site. The easiest way to achieve this is to use the WP Dashboard Messages plugin. Once the plugin has been installed and activated it will add a new admin menu; Continue reading the post...